 |
 |
Good Morning: If we had a week-I could maybe tell you about this subject! I am thoroughly convinced that stress & hormones have an immense effect on the severity of my symptoms. My life has always had alot of stress. When we moved 6 years ago, then made a visit to Mayo, those were stressful situations but not enough to impact my PD. Shortly thereafter I started the process to obtain my Social Security Disability. I credit that dehumanizing process with the beginning of my real decline. Add to that the death of my father-in-law, the kids starting school, my husband getting shot (he's a City Inspector & was shot in the head by a teenager with a high-power pellet gun while driving his City car), my pallidotomies with my parents building onto our house & moving out here with us(major destruction er, construction!) & my dad's ever-worsening Alzheimer's continued my decline. After finally making the decision to put dad in a veteran's hospital, the torture continued as we made the long, terrible trip to visit him 2 x a week, second guessing ourselves and fighting among ourselves ( there are 6 kids in my family & we can't agree on a restaurant much less decisions like these). Then dad got really sick & had to have an operation & was kept alive with feeding tubes, oxygen etc. until the rest of the family finally came around to my point of view-that this was not living & that we were keeping him alive for us rather than putting daddy's wishes first & letting him go home. Altho, his death, visitation & funeral were beautiful, it has been traumatic for me (he died in Feb. of this year) & my symptoms stayed pretty much on an even keel through all that-thank God, until reality stepped in and WHAM-O- I fell apart, physically & emotionally. With what I'd been through, my neuro recommended a rubber room & can't believe that I keep digging down inside & somehow finding the strength to keep going. I figure that I've had it no better nor worse than alot of people and better than lots of folks because of my faith, my husband, & my family & friends- this includes the new friends onthis list -- --- Joan Snyder (47/8) "Do or do not. There is no try."Yoda [log in to unmask] htt://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/page1.htm